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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2025, 6:29 PM CDT for Kent County, King County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 22 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2025, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2025, 6:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 28, 6:17 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:17 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 34 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.